Quickview for YouTube

Allows you to quickly view videos from your subscriptions feed page

What is Quickview for YouTube?

Quickview for YouTube is a time-saving and user-friendly Chrome extension designed to enhance your YouTube browsing experience. It allows users to hover over thumbnails in the subscription feed and instantly view videos, eliminating the need to navigate away from the page. This versatile extension even works on side thumbnails on the video page. It's designed to adapt to YouTube updates and changes while offering users customization options like setting preferred hover time and playback rate.

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By: ngzhian

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Users: 644 ▲ 27

Rating: 4.13 (31)

Version: 2.5.0 (Last updated: 2018-09-10)

Creation date: 2018-09-09

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage

Size: 80.63K

Email: ng*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 34959 ▲ 402

Other rankings

#1645 in Just for Fun ▲ 4 #83 in hover keyword 28 ▼ 3 #89 in subscriptions keyword 27 ▼ 2 #167 in bug fixes keyword 59 ▲ 8

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Summary

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Watch videos without leaving your YouTube subscriptions feed page, and possibly without ever clicking.

Hover over thumbnails in your feed page to view that video. How about thumbnails at the side of a video page? That works too!

Q: What's better than a nice subscriptions feed page that you can scroll forever? A: A page where you can scroll forever AND watch videos.

P.S. This is open-source at https://github.com/ngzhian/quickview

-LATEST CHANGES- 2.5.0 works on more pages now (homepage, channel page, video page) 2.4.0 Works with new YouTube design now! 2.3.0

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Efficient and saves time
Great support and quick issue resolution
Convenient and fun to use

Cons

Delay option may not work as intended
Unintentionally annoying on certain pages
UI can be improved

Most mentioned

Delay option not working as intended
Works great and convenient to use
UI improvements needed

Recent reviews

current requirement to get this addon to work: YouTube > Settings > Playback and performance > Browsing > Video previews (toggle this off)

Riaz Ali, 2024-01-10

it works great, but the delay option doesn't actually delay the video showing up like I think was the intention? I set it to the equivalent of a minute of delay and it still shows up in a couple of seconds. I set it to all 9s, up until the max, and got the same result.